Journalists And Twitter

The hype around Twitter is beginning to spread to its Journalist community. Twitter's role in news breaking events is alerting journalism experts to this silly little tool. Is it possible that microblogging really is useful for things other than socializing and blabbering?

Perhaps shedding light on this issue is the very first scoop by a Twitter user on all other news media. It concerned the death of Jennifer Dunn, a former US congress member. It was a scoop from a scoop. Wikipedia reported the news at 9:12 a.m., only minutes before a newspaper reporter reported it. The source? A 'breaking news alert' from Twitter! It's impossible however to trace the Twitterer!

So much for glory. Which isn't negligeable, by the way; Several sports fanatics are using Twitter to report on live matches and that is an obvious use. Canvassing other initiatives to combine Twitter with reporting news events is pretty tough because it involves researching individuals mostly. At reporTwitters, a site that groups reporters using Twitter, a collaboration project has gone underway to research reporters' use of Twitter. Ultimately, the research will result in a communally written article featuring a journalistic assessment of Twitter.

Participants are asked to answer three questions on a blank news page entitled 'Assessing The News Value Of Twittering - A Call For Comments of Professional Journalists';

1) What was the most unexpected thing you’ve recently found yourself Twittering about?
2) What is the most unexpected issue you heard via other people’s Twitterings?
3) How do you use Twitter professionally?

Some of the responses are listed already. Turns out that normal people are genuinely hooked on the feeling to be the first to report an issue. That's quite a familiar sensation, I would guess.

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	angelique van engelen 2 months ago
Figuring out what drives traffic. Is it keywords or simply writing wacky headlines?

	angelique van engelen 2 months ago
Wrote a story for TriplePundit about Ethanol politics: http://tinyurl.com/6arrtu

	angelique van engelen 2 months ago
back in action. whats been happening? I feel like I woke from a coma.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter Hey you there. I do not get all your messages I guess. try mailing me at ave@contentclix.com. Am in Edinburgh until august 5.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
sittng in a libray in pennywell in edinburgh. arrived two days ago. fun place.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Large quantities of icecream I guess.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
http://tinyurl.com/6aone5 My article about Airline travel set to increase 600% by 2050.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Started reading James Joyce Ulysses. Perfect weather for such mind boggling stuff.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Going to wash my hair. Fix the brakes on my bike. Feel like eating something in large quantities in the hammock.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
lied in a hammock for the first time in my life. great experience.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter Yeah. It's very unsunny weather here. How bout your end of the world.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
where's tinyurl when you need it?

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Written story about airline pollution and who's doing what. http://tinyurl.com/6aone5

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Woa my mother wakes up suddenly. Feel like a teenager. Wish I had nice emails.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Perhaps I am rich without knowing it.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
At long last I got Google Ads on my blog. Wonder how come the coding suddenly started working. Wordpress is quite a hike usually.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Am gong to watch a movie I think. Watch-movies.net is just great for insomniacs like me.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Finished the article. Saved it on Triple Pundit. Will publish after reading through one more time tomorrow. IT's late after all.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
got over that tired point now. damn!

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
very nearly finished my story about the EU US aviation ghg offsetting row. Eu want airlines to offset or face penalties. US calls a meeting

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter better than losing your memory

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter oooo.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Twitter stutters!

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
I need a second hand monitor for my computer. Checking out the rubbish dumps in Edinburgh tomorrow.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter hey what happend to you?

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
going cycling. Taking back the brakes I did not install on the ffing thing. 11 euros worth of brakes. Worth cycling 20 kms for. Nice weather

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter during the day.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
@dailytwitter Hey man I am off. Let's chat next week. I have more time then.

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
he he

	angelique van engelen 4 months ago
Unless you take climate change into consideration.